scottydawg wrote:jellybaloo wrote:
betta only need 4 pellets aday some like to give 2 in the morning and 2 at night, if he doesnt eat them all make sure you take them out as leaving them in will add to the ammonia and as hes in a bowl with out a filter you need to keep it as clean as you can
I gave him a little more than that today, which I believe he ate all of. Hikari pellets are extremely small. All of the dirt was from his old pellets, which were so big I had to crush them. Should be better now that he has food he can actually eat, but I still need to clean his gravel to get all of the old gunk out of there.
Edit: It says to give him 5-10 pellets up to three times daily.
I was told by the petsop to feed 8 pellets when it should actually be 4, 10 pellets 3 times aday is way too much, Kiara20 posted these pics on a different thread I found them very usefull
A comfortably fed betta:
A betta that was overfed just a little:
A betta that ate way to much:
And a betta that ate wayyyyyyyy to much food!:
Overfeeding can sometimes cause swim bladder, and that can take a betta weeks to recover from!
fish always beg for food, so even if you have fed him and he still acts like he wants more he'll be fine hes not starving, they only have tiny stomachs
kiara20 wrote:Most of the pellet bottles will say things like that just so that you'll run out of pellets faster and have to by more. I have TopFin pellets and even they say I should be feeding my bettas 3-4 pellets twice a day...that's 6-8 pellets a day! O_o My bettas would explode!
